Children’s Contact with Incarcerated Parents

Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Human Development and Family Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; director of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being at the University of Wisconsin; an investigator at the Waisman Center, an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty; and a licensed psychologist. Through numerous publications and outreach efforts, she has brought the attention of the child development and family studies communities to the issue of parental incarceration. Her research with children of incarcerated parents has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Poehlmann-Tynan has served as an advisor to Sesame Street to help develop and evaluate their Emmy-nominated initiative for young children with incarcerated parents and their families called Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration.

• ​Chapter 1. Introduction: Is Parent-Child Contact During ParentalIncarceration Beneficial?.- Chapter 2. Differential Effects of Type of Children’s Contact with their Jailed Mothers and Children’s Behavior Problems.- Chapter 3. Young Children’s Behavioral and Emotional Reactions to Plexiglas and Video Visits with Jailed Parents.- Chapter 4. Associations among Mother-Child Contact, Parenting Stress, Hair Cortisol and Mother and Child Adjustment Related to Incarceration.- Chapter 5. Children's Contact with Incarcerated Parents: Summary and Recommendations.- Chapter 6. Commentary.